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Re: st: duplicated datetime variable differs from original datetime variable it was derived from


From   Phil Clayton <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: duplicated datetime variable differs from original datetime variable it was derived from
Date   Tue, 12 Nov 2013 22:33:59 +1100

Dates with times need to be stored in double precision. Try:
gen double time1=time

See -help datetime-

Phil

On 12 Nov 2013, at 10:25 pm, Milena Przheska <[email protected]> wrote:

> Dear Statalist members,
> 
> When duplicating a time variable by typing
> 
> gen time1 =time
> 
> the new variable time1 is off by several seconds from the variable time, so
> 
> time
> 06jun2012 22:44:51
> 06jun2012 22:44:54
> 06jun2012 22:44:56
> 07jun2012 01:39:58
> 07jun2012 01:40:05
> 07jun2012 01:40:45
> 07jun2012 03:09:48
> 07jun2012 03:09:48
> 07jun2012 03:11:06
> 
> becomes
> 
> time1
> 06jun2012 22:45:17
> 06jun2012 22:45:17
> 06jun2012 22:45:17
> 07jun2012 01:40:03
> 07jun2012 01:40:03
> 07jun2012 01:40:03
> 07jun2012 03:09:37
> 07jun2012 03:09:37
> 07jun2012 03:11:48
> 
> 
> I would appreciate your help with resolving this problem.
> 
> Thank you all,
> Milena
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